Artful Intelligence vs wayfound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artful Intelligence
Manage the artificial intelligence of a fantasy video game. Your goal is to keep the player engaged and entertained, preventing boredom or rage, to help them reach the final battle.
- Play as game AI
- Manage player emotions
- Prevent boredom and rage
- Guide player to final battle
- Unique simulation gameplay
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Artful Intelligence is a game made by a group of St. Louis developers as part of Global Game Jam 2014. The premise of the game is that you play the role of the artificial intelligence for a fantasy video game. Your job is to watch the player of the game and keep him or her entertained without letting them get too bored or too enraged. Can you keep your user excited long enough to get to through the final battle?
wayfound
A serene puzzle game where you learn to navigate by memory. Follow a fox through charming towns, complete small errands, and then retrace your steps without any digital aids. The game encourages spatial memory development through gentle exploration and discovery.
- No timers or fail states
- Gentle hints when needed
- Learn streets through errands
- Develop spatial memory
- New towns per chapter
- Offline play
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A fox walks you through a little town. Then you find your own way back. Wayfound is a calm puzzle game about the oldest skill you own: knowing where you are. Follow the fox through pastel streets, past bakeries and clock towers, up a quiet elevator. Notice things. Then walk the route yourself — no minimap, no GPS arrow, just you and what you remember. THERE'S NO CLOCK, AND NO WRONG WAY TO WANDER • No timers, no fail states, no lives. Wrong turns are part of wandering — the fox always finds you. • A rescue ladder, not a game over: hints arrive as gentle nudges, only when you want them. • Little errands: deliver a parcel, find the bakery, learn the streets by needing them. • At corners, the fox asks: which way now? Guess, and feel the route settle into your feet. • Walks grow with you: first the fox leads, then you study a map and walk alone, then it's just you and a destination. • The town grows because you walked it — a flour cart by the bakery, a fishing net by the pier — small things appear when you finish an errand, and they stay. • Point home: a quiet compass test at the end of each walk. Watch yourself get better. • A new town for every chapter — every street is new to you, so each walk is real navigation. WHY WALKS WORK Wayfound is inspired by research on spatial memory — how we build inner maps from landmarks, routes, and wrong turns, and how turn-by-turn navigation quietly erodes that skill. It's not a brain-training claim. It's just a nice walk. • Free, no ads, no subscriptions, no tracking. Your progress stays on your device. • Works entirely offline. • English, 简体中文, 日本語.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: wayfound at every 9 days against Artful Intelligence's every 114 months. Artful Intelligence's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Artful Intelligence against 5.0 for wayfound. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Artful Intelligence ships an update every 114 months, wayfound every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artful Intelligence | wayfound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 114 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Rauscher | Shuai Yuan |
Customer experience
Artful Intelligence
wayfound
In-app purchases
Artful Intelligence
No in-app purchases
wayfound
No in-app purchases
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